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A Lasting Peace In The Middle East?
2 weeks ago
Hahaha. No.
Despite Trump claiming such, and all of the breathless lionizing of him, It's highly unlikely.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1.....med_abu_artema
"PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: [I’ve never seen anyone] move the world so quickly, so decisively, so resolutely, as our friend President Donald J. Trump. … With our military pressure and President Trump’s global leadership, we achieved this historic moment. It’s a moment of indescribable joy.
AMY GOODMAN: As President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset, a group of leftist Israeli lawmakers briefly interrupted him by waving a sign calling him to “Recognize Palestine.”
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Everybody loves Steve, (Witkoff) and they respect him, and they somehow can relate to him. I’ve known him for many years, and I’ve seen it over — over and over again.
KNESSET CHAIR: [speaking in Hebrew]
KNESSET MEMBERS: Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!
-These leftist Knesset members were shouted down, despite their protest being silent, and promptly thrown out and suspended.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That was very efficient.
AMY GOODMAN: At one point, President Trump claimed the Gaza ceasefire will mark the beginning of a golden age for Israel and the Middle East.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can tell you, we have weapons that nobody has ever dreamt of. I only hope we never have to use them. I rebuilt the military. I was proud to do it. But some of the things, I hated to do. I hated certain of the weapons, because the level of power is so enormous. It’s so dangerous, so bad. But we have to do what we have to do. We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel, frankly. And —"
-I'll remind you once again that no Palestinians have been involved in any way in this "Peace plan". Until they are, there's no way that any kind of plan can will succeed.
"Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under investigation for corruption in Israel and subject to an international arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Despite the newly implemented Gaza ceasefire, says Pappé, Israeli political leaders have not changed their policy aim to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their remaining territory. “Nothing has changed in the dehumanization and the attitude of this particular Israeli government and its belief that it has the power to wipe out Palestine as a nation, as a people and as a country,” he explains. Pappé’s latest book is titled Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions That Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1.....l_on_the_brink
Israel is already using Hamas's not immediately returning all of the dead hostages as an excuse to cut aid from 600 trucks a day by half, close the Rafah gate, and block cooking fuel, despite their long knowing that many of the bodies will likely never be found, and Hamas warning them days ago that they don't have access to all of the bodies because some of them have been buried under rubble by Israeli strikes, and Israel having purposely buried graveyards. Some of them are reportedly in areas off limits to the Palestinians, or were being held by people who are now dead. Israel is also not letting the type of heavy machinery into Gaza that would be necessary to use to remove the rubble burying these bodies, nor the people that Hamas says are critical in assisting them to find the rest of the dead..
They're being set up to fail already.
Despite Trump claiming such, and all of the breathless lionizing of him, It's highly unlikely.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1.....med_abu_artema
"PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: [I’ve never seen anyone] move the world so quickly, so decisively, so resolutely, as our friend President Donald J. Trump. … With our military pressure and President Trump’s global leadership, we achieved this historic moment. It’s a moment of indescribable joy.
AMY GOODMAN: As President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset, a group of leftist Israeli lawmakers briefly interrupted him by waving a sign calling him to “Recognize Palestine.”
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Everybody loves Steve, (Witkoff) and they respect him, and they somehow can relate to him. I’ve known him for many years, and I’ve seen it over — over and over again.
KNESSET CHAIR: [speaking in Hebrew]
KNESSET MEMBERS: Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!
-These leftist Knesset members were shouted down, despite their protest being silent, and promptly thrown out and suspended.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That was very efficient.
AMY GOODMAN: At one point, President Trump claimed the Gaza ceasefire will mark the beginning of a golden age for Israel and the Middle East.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can tell you, we have weapons that nobody has ever dreamt of. I only hope we never have to use them. I rebuilt the military. I was proud to do it. But some of the things, I hated to do. I hated certain of the weapons, because the level of power is so enormous. It’s so dangerous, so bad. But we have to do what we have to do. We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel, frankly. And —"
-I'll remind you once again that no Palestinians have been involved in any way in this "Peace plan". Until they are, there's no way that any kind of plan can will succeed.
"Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under investigation for corruption in Israel and subject to an international arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Despite the newly implemented Gaza ceasefire, says Pappé, Israeli political leaders have not changed their policy aim to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their remaining territory. “Nothing has changed in the dehumanization and the attitude of this particular Israeli government and its belief that it has the power to wipe out Palestine as a nation, as a people and as a country,” he explains. Pappé’s latest book is titled Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions That Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1.....l_on_the_brink
Israel is already using Hamas's not immediately returning all of the dead hostages as an excuse to cut aid from 600 trucks a day by half, close the Rafah gate, and block cooking fuel, despite their long knowing that many of the bodies will likely never be found, and Hamas warning them days ago that they don't have access to all of the bodies because some of them have been buried under rubble by Israeli strikes, and Israel having purposely buried graveyards. Some of them are reportedly in areas off limits to the Palestinians, or were being held by people who are now dead. Israel is also not letting the type of heavy machinery into Gaza that would be necessary to use to remove the rubble burying these bodies, nor the people that Hamas says are critical in assisting them to find the rest of the dead..
They're being set up to fail already.
Just like the year old "Ceasefire" in Lebanon which Israel has violated practically every day.
Israel has proven over and over that they have no regard for ceasefires or laws.